Contract DevOps Engineer: AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps

Qvest; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401k matching

Flexible vacation

Training & professional growth

Job summary

Qvest US is seeking a seasoned Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer to design and implement scalable AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across multi-environment deployments. You will work with Terraform or AWS CDK, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS), and GitOps workflows to enable zero-downtime releases.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will optimize observability, security, and cost governance, while building automation tools in Python or Go and integrating vulnerability scanning into CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Architect, provision, and maintain modular AWS infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Design, build, and maintain automated delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Manage production-grade containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.
• Instrument observability using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch and define SLIs/SLOs.
• Integrate vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy) into CI/CD pipelines and manage RBAC and secrets.
• Develop automation scripts using Python (boto3) or Go to reduce toil and support backups.
• Monitor cloud consumption and implement auto-scaling policies for cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Architect, provision, and maintain modular AWS infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Design, build, and maintain automated delivery pipelines with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Manage production-grade containerized workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.
• Instrument observability using OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch and define SLIs/SLOs.
• Integrate vulnerability scanning (Snyk/Trivy) into CI/CD pipelines and manage RBAC and secrets.
• Develop automation scripts using Python (boto3) or Go to reduce toil and support backups.
• Monitor cloud consumption and implement auto-scaling policies for cost efficiency.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Containers & Orchestration

CI/CD & Delivery

Systems Programming / Scripting

Telemetry & Reliability

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

JFrog Artifactory

Sonatype Nexus

Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)

Helm

Argo CD

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Prometheus/Grafana

Snyk

Trivy

HashiCorp Vault

AWS Secrets Manager

Job description

Qvest US is seeking a seasoned Cloud Architect/DevOps Engineer to design and implement scalable AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across multi-environment deployments. You will work with Terraform or AWS CDK, Kubernetes (EKS/ECS), and GitOps workflows to enable zero-downtime releases.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will optimize observability, security, and cost governance, while building automation tools in Python or Go and integrating vulnerability scanning into CI/CD.